The Society for Court Studies

The North American Society for Court Studies

 

Events

            

 

 

   Art Exhibits, Concerts, and Cultural Events:

    "All That Glitters Is Not Gold: The Art, Form & Function of Gilt Bronze in the French Interior"

            Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY......................July 27, 2004- February 20, 2005  (212) 535-7710

 

        Chamber Music Society: Classic Trios (Features works from Beethoven, Mendlessohn, and Brahms)

            Lincoln Center-Alice Tully Hall..........................November 7-9, 2004  (212) 875-5050          

       

        Chamber Music Society: Imani Winds  (Features works from Mozart and Gounod)

            Lincoln Center-Rose Studio...............................November 11, 2004  (212) 875-5000

 

      

 

   IHR Seminar Programme:   

 

IHR SEMINAR PROGRAMME  Winter term 2004

 

 

Tudor-Stuart Seminar  Mondays 5.15  Wolfson Room

Convenors: Professor Conrad Russell (KCL) Dr Pauline Croft (RHUL)

Simon Healy (History of Parliament) Professor Richard Hoyle (U. of Reading)

Dr Michael Questier (QMUL)  

 

Monday  19 January      

Dr Susan Doran  (Christ Church Oxford)................................................................................... “James VI and the English Succession 1595-1603”

                          

                          The seminar will be followed by a launch party for the new biography of Mary Queen of Scots, My Heart is My Own by Dr John                             Guy. Copies will be available at a discount - and John will sign them.

 

Monday  2 February  

Dr Tracey Hill (Bath Spa University College)...................................................................................“Representing the awefull authorie of soveraigne                                                                                                                                   Majestie”: Monarchs and Mayors in Anthony Munday’s  “The                                                                                                                                   Triumphs of Re-united Britanie” of 1605

 

Monday  16 February  

Dr Simon Thurley (Director, English Heritage)..................................................................................................“Hampton Court Palace 1400-1760”

 

                     This will be a joint meeting with the Society for Court Studies and will begin at 6 p.m.

 

 Monday  1 March   

Helen Good  (University of Hull)............................................................................“Precedents for Ship Money: The Elizabethan Ship levies at Hull”

 

 

North American Conferences:

French Royal Entries in the Sixteenth Century: Event, Image, Text  

Program:

October 22-23, 2004

Graham Hall - Brown Fine Arts Center ~ Smith College, Northampton Massachusetts

Friday 22 October

5-6:30pm

 

Craig Felton (Smith College).......................................................................................................................................................Introduction

 

Keynote Speaker: Margaret McGowan (University of Sussex).........................................................................................."The French Royal Entry        

                                                                                                                                                         in the Renaissance: The Status of the Printed Text"

6:30pm             Reception

 

Saturday 23 October

9-11:30am 

 

Nicholas Russell..........................................................................................................................................................................Welcome

Chair: Ann Jones (Smith College)

 

Helene Visentin (Smith College).............................................................................................."French Royal Entries: Recent Research and Publications"

 

Daniel Russell (University of Pittsburgh).............................................................."Emblematic Discourse in the Royal Entries of the French Renaissance"

 

Elizabeth McCartney (UCLA)..................................................................................."Recasting the Ceremonial Paradigm: Texts and Contexts of Royal

                                                                                                                                                   Entry Ceremonies in Renaissance France 1504-1610"

 

11:30am-1:30pm             Lunch

 

1:30-3:30pm

 

Chair John Moore (Smith College)

 

Richard Cooper (Oxford University)................................................."Legate's luxury: Alessandro Farnese's entries into Avignon and Carpentras, 1553"

 

Ann W. Ramsey (Independent Scholar)........................................................................."Character, Conjuncture, and Epistemology: Henry IV's Parisan

                                                                                                                                                                                     Entry and the Decline of Ritual"

 

Benoit Bolduc (University of Toronto)...............................................................Hypnerotomachia Medicensis: "Les Triomphes faictz a l'entrée du Roy a

                                                                                                                                                                                                     Chenonceau" (1560)

 

4-6pm

 

Chair: Pierre-Louis Vaillancourt (University of Ottawa)

 

William Kemp and Lyse Roy (Université á Montréal)....................................................."The Corpus of Entry Ceremonies during the Reign of Francis I"

 

Joachim Stieber (Smith College)......................................................................................The "Joyous Entry" of the Duke of Anjou into Antwerp (1582)

                                                                                                                                              and the Tradition of Urban Liberties in the Low Countries

 

Free and Open to the Public

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United Kingdom Conferences:

Sculpted Portraits of Rulers and Royalty (Wallace Collection, London, 3-4 July 2004)